Data Engineer

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you are empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

Schwab is recruiting an outcome driven, results-oriented, well organized data technology specialist who shares our passion for technology, innovation, people, and excellence. Our main goal here at Schwab is to transform people’s lives by changing the way the world invests. We are in the midst of re-architecting and rebuilding our core enterprise data platform to support our rapidly growing and evolving business. The Sr Specialist will be a hands-on developer with technical acumen that excels in a structured, dynamic, fast-moving environment and is passionate about developing high quality, high performance, and scalable solutions. The candidate will develop data solutions and work aside a team of seasoned engineers whose main objective is to maintain all aspects of the system health and ensure the quality delivery of software releases.

This position will be part of the Operational Data Exchange (ODX) Technology team within the Schwab Data organization focusing on providing Operational Intelligence and Insights, and position Schwab to remain a Data Driven organization using a world class Data Exchange (DX) platform. The DX support various critical business functions and business units – Schwab Technology Services (STS), Audit, Corporate Tax, Risk, Compliance, etc. This is a role for someone who is passionate and excited to learn/understand the business, focus on basics and streamline existing system to make is stable that is pivotal to drive client-centricity, reducing time to market, scale & increasing efficiency. Ideal candidates enjoy working in a structured fast-paced environment and embrace change passionately. This is a unique opportunity to grow and transform our business through driving significant step-change in our time to market, building more stable integrated solutions, and enabling project success via cross-functional coordination and ownership.

In this role you will:

• Have expertise in data pipeline development.

• Experience working in Agile development environment supporting organization priorities and innovation.

• Work closely with technical lead, development team members to decompose stories, design features, and prioritize tasks.

• Embrace a culture of open feedback that promotes accountability for getting better together.

• Collaborate with other shared functions to support application support and automation for deployments.

• Create and maintain artifacts for production support and deployment processes and ensure smooth hand off to support teams.

• Work with onshore and offshore developers and application support to review and improve processes.

• Demonstrated ability to bring forward ideas and thoughts, disagree, debate your case with data, and commit to deliver regardless of the outcome.

What you have

Required Qualifications:

• Expertise in ETL development, Data Quality, Best Practices, Exception Handling

• SQL, Google Cloud Products including BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Composer, Pub/Sub, SQL Server Integration Services

• Collaborate with analysts, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver tailored solutions.

• Design, implement, and optimize end-to-end data pipelines for ingesting, processing, and transforming large volumes of structured and unstructured data.

• Develop robust ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to integrate data from diverse sources into our data ecosystem.

• Implement data validation and quality checks to ensure accuracy and consistency

• Mentoring junior team members to ensure team and project success.

• Expertise in Python coding skills

• Business Analysis experience to perform data analysis to translate business requirements to data mapping

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or similar/equivalent area of study

• Minimum of 3-5 years of solid data engineering experience.

• Good understanding of Architecture and Development Standards and Guidelines

• Willingness to learn new skills and keep up with technology changes in future to meet business needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with and sourcing data from Corporate Systems like Workday, BMC Remedy Helix, Jira, Rally, etc.

• Ability to analyze, propose and implement solutions for all issues or problems within area of responsibility.

• Good verbal and written communication skills required for composing and delivering technical documentation to various levels of technical management.

• Proficient at achieving clarity on priorities in a well-organized dynamic, fast paced team

• Strong understanding of Database and SQL

• Good understanding of Data pipelines and patterns.

• Experience in dev tools such as GitHub, Bamboo, Liquibase

• Experience in creating source to target data mapping

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.

What’s in it for you

At Schwab, we’re committed to empowering our employees’ personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you’ll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan

• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions

• Paid parental leave and family building benefits

• Tuition reimbursement

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

What’s in it for you:

At Schwab, we’re committed to empowering our employees’ personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you’ll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions

Paid parental leave and family building benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Schwab is an affirmative action employer, focused on employing and advancing in employment, qualified women, racial and ethnic minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities in the workplace. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodations in the application process, contact Human Resources at or call .